• Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 28, 2008
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 8
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 162 Ratings

  • Summary: The remake of a hit Israeli show airing 5 days a week looks into therapist Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) practice along with his own sessions with a psychologist.
  • Genre(s): Drama
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 26
  2. Negative: 2 out of 26
  1. 100
    In Treatment is exhilarating.
  2. 80
    If you like shrink-oriented, smartly written TV, In Treatment (Monday-Friday, 8:30 p.m., HBO) just might get you through the next few weeks with your sanity intact.
  3. In Treatment is fascinating TV, but it's not a pleasant experience. Watching these therapy sessions is akin to eating your TV broccoli.
  4. Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
    30
    Paul Weston's (Byrne) nonadventures straddle the realms of the scarcely credible and the incredibly boring.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 89 out of 92
  2. Negative: 2 out of 92
  1. 10
    30 episodes (no pun) in and I am addicted (pun). As a chartered psychologist but not clinically orientated. It is drawing me towards the dark side (pun). I hope clinical practice is this interesting (no pun). Expand
  2. RalphP
    8
    What to me is most revelatory--and fascinating--about In Treatment the contrast between Paul the therapist and Paul the patient. The former appears mostly in control but also weary, sad, empathic, and, well, nice. The latter, on the other hand, in his scenes with Gina, his own therapist, is often out of control and angry. Not a therapist or patient myself, I can only guess that this contrast is not at all uncommon. Expand
  3. JudyT
    7
    It's not perfect but its better than most of the crap on TV. The acting is superb and if only for that reason it should be watched.
  4. ChrisC
    4
    The first HBO flop in some time. The storylines are predictable, the acting is atrocious and the whole follow through is over the top. Therapy can certainly be dramatic, but In Treatment only focuses on the dramatic, at the expense of nuance. Expand

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